The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05
Household Hints.

For cleaning brasses belonging TO
mahogany furniture use either powdered
whiting or scraped rotten-stone mixed
with sweet oil, and rub on with a
chamois skin.
VINEGAR is better than ice for keep
ing fish. BY putting little vinegar on
the fish il will keep perfectly well, even
in very hot weather. Fish is often i'm
proved in flavor under this treatment.
To prevent polished steel from rust
ing after cleaning, and when not in use,
take cloth with very little sweet oil
on it and wipe the articles over so as
slightly, but evenly, to oil the surface.
STEEL knives which are not in gen.
eral use may be kept from rusting if
they are dipped in strong solution of
soda. one part water to four of soda;
then wipe dry, roll in flannel and keep
in dry place.
SLIPPERY-ELM bark is good remedy
for scaly boilers and has been success
fully used for number of years. 1t is
placed in the boiler and left there, the
scale falling off in flakes, which should
be at once removed.
SILVER becoming black may be
avoided by keeping that which is not
often used in canton flannel bags, with
small bags about the size of thimble
filled with bits of gum camphor packed
in around the articles.
WE believe in electing women to
public Office and are glad to see that
voters generally are willing to accord
that privilege TO the weaker sex. But
we notice that they generally get the
office that has no salary attached.
WHEN you enter sick-room do so
at once; do not spend five minutes
turning the handle, like house
breaker, thereby producing series of
irritating little clicks, ending in big
snap, with which the door flies open.
INSECTS may be destroyed with hot
alum Put it in hot water and let it
boil until the alum is dissolved. Apply
hot, with brush, and all creeping
things are instantly destroyed without
danger to human life or injury to
property.
HARD corns may be treated thus:
Take thick piece of felt, cut hole in
the centre. When going to bed fill the
hole with a paste made of soap and
soda. Wash it off in the morning.
Repeat the process for several nights
and the corn may be removed.
A DECIDED change has occurred in
the views of medical men as to the use
or the necessity for alcoholic liquors in
case of sickness. 1t is now generally
agreed that alcohol has no restorative
power except as stimulant, and that
the reaction following its use more
than offsets its supposed benefits.
The Wamsutta " lamp-wick must
not be forgotten. The points of SUI
periority claimed for it over all other
lamp-wicks are the following, viz: 1t
lasts from six to twelve months with
out trimming; it uses less oil and gives
brighter light. Lamp and chimney
are always clean, and it does not smoke
or smell.
AN old lady of New Hampshire, who
recently celebrated her eightieth birth
day by giving an elaborate supper at
which every article, including the
cheese and butter, was made with her
own hands, thus explained the secret
of her vigor and health; 81 never fret
over things | cannot help; take nap,
and sometimes two, every day of my
life; never take my work to bed with
me: and | oil the many wheels of a
busy life by an implicit faith that there
is brain and heart to this great uni
verse, and that can trust them both,'